Inspiring Speaker Series: Reading List

In anticipation of our yet to be announced event, every Friday leading up, we will release four (4) titles here in the Friday Flyer, the Bulletin, and on our Instagram. All titles are available for loan from the AUArts Luke Lindoe Library!

First edition

• W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, eBook, 2009 edition / Also available at Calgary Public Library. 
• bell hooks, Art On My Mind: Visual Politics, book, 1995 
• Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel, book, 1937 / Also available at Calgary Public Library. 
• Christina Elizabeth Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, book, 2016 

Second edition

• James Baldwin, I am not your Negro, book, 2017 / Also available at Calgary Public Library. 
• Karina Vernon, The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology, book, 2020 / Also available at Calgary Public Library 
• Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the oppressed, book, 1997. 
• Saidiya Hartman, Lose your mother, book, 2007 / Also available at Calgary Public Library 

Third edition

• Katherine Mckittrick, Silvia Wynter, On being human as praxis, book, 2015 
• Dionne Brand, No language is neutral, book, 1998 
• Ralph Ellison, Invisible man, book, 1995 / Also available at Calgary Public Library 
• bell hooks, All about love: new visions, book, 1952/ Also available at Calgary Public Library  

Fourth edition

• Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming human: matter and meaning in an anti-black world, book, 2020 
• Cheryl Foggo, Pourin’ down rain, book, 2020 edition / Also available at Calgary Public Library 
• Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon, book, 2019 / Also available at Calgary Public Librarylist 
• Christina Elizabeth Sharpe, Monstrous intimacies, book, 2010 

Fifth edition

• Bertrand Bickersteth, The response of weeds, book, 2020, Also available at Calgary Public Library 
• Ibram X Kendi, How to be an anti racist, book, 2019 / Also available at Calgary Public Library 
• Edouard Glissant, Poetics of relation, book, 1997 edition 
• Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the mind, book, 1986 

Sixth edition

• bell hooks, Bone black: memories of girlhood, book, 1996 
• Richard Wright, The Outsider, book, 2003 edition / Also available at Calgary Public Library 
• Dionne Brand, The blue clerk, book, 2019 / Also available at Calgary Public Library  
• Fred Moten, In the break: the aesthetics of the black radical tradition, book, 2003 / Also available at Calgary Public Library 

Seventh edition

• Saidiya Hartman, Wayward lives, beautiful experiments, book , 2020 / Also available at Calgary Public Library 
• Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives, book, 2017 / Also available at Calgary Public Library 
• Frantz Fanon, Black skin, white masks, book, ebook, 2008 
• James Baldwin, The fire next time, book, 1993 edition / Also available at Calgary Public Library 

Eighth edition

• Suzette Mayr, Dr. Edith Vane and the hares of Crawley Hall, book, 2017 / Also available at Calgary Public Library 
• Katie Kellough, Magnetic equator, book, 2019 edition / Also available at Calgary Public Library 
• Claude Brown, Manchild in the promised land, book, 2012 edition 
• Fred Moten, The undercommons: fugitive planning and black study, book, 2013